Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon I shall close my potato chip establishment. I shall hang out my American flags and as they kiss again the air of freedom unpolluted by the foul breath of the legislative bribe takers, the boodlers, the demagogues and the little dictators so drunk with power that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder of our Republic, Abraham Lincoln, the saviour of our Country, and Woodrow Wilson, who died a martyr to the ideal...
...touch that!" shouted Robert Lampoon, noted virtnoso, to a CRIME reporter whom he observed looking quizzically at his picolo. "It's my own," he added, fondling it, "and that's why I didn't dare play at the Union tonight. I'm taking awfully good care of it till St. Patrick's Day. Guess why? Why, it's the Lampoon dinner, celebrates six months peace with the police. Can I sell you a ticket...
Whimsy, put on the stage, makes demands on the imagination that no other theatrical mode dare ask. "The Jealous Moon" is whimsy in a fantastic Italian comic setting. Pierrot, Columbine and Harlequin are on the tiny stage of a travelling puppet show, and above them, in the miniature flies of the little stage, are the human selves of Jane Cowl, Philip Merivale and Guy Standing, who pull the strings of the dangling waggle-headed dolls. In the second act Peter Parrot, played by Philip Merivale, dreams all the company of puppeteers into the character and garden scene of the miniature...
Quick curtain! For Politician Herriot, a staunch Republican, even a Socialist, does not quite dare to write the inevitable epilogue-Napoleon's reconquest of France...
...physician of a specialist who will pay the rebate, which may readily lead to the employing of a less qualified man than would otherwise be obtained; 2) an increased charge by the specialist to cover the unacknowledged rebate. It is a secret understanding between two professional men which they dare not bring into the open." To such rebuke Dr. Hartwell's Manhattan colleagues listened, as doctors elsewhere would listen, some queasy, most phlegmatic...